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• For years, we just accepted the premise that the reporters from that J-school mentality of neutrality and objectivity were just laying out the facts. We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased, and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

  Andrew Breitbart

  School, Objectivity, Years

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things, trying to cross different genres, and dipping my toes into comedy and drama and action here and there. Fortunately, as I've been working, the industry has also changed where you're able to dip your toes into different mediums, where it's not just independent film and studio film, but now you've got TV, and you're able to do all these different things. For me, it's just a matter of continually pushing myself and challenging myself.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Drama, Independent, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't take them. I look back and think, oh man, well I'd have been well off monetarily wise, but artistic wise I don't know. I'd have to say, personally, in my personal life, yeah, but in my musical life, on twenty-twenty hindsight I would say just take the good with the bad.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Wise, Men, Thinking

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, 'The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Understanding, Events, Astonishment

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• Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.

  Jerome Groopman

  Sports, Pain, Frustration

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• I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

  Rita Dove

  Kings, Black And White, Rights

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• From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

  Anthony Marra

  Children, Sadness, Addiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Play, Mind, Tricks

  Jeremy J. Siegel (1994). “Stocks for the Long Run: A Guide to Selecting Markets for Long-term Growth”, Irwin Professional Publishing

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• Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.

  Vince Gill

  Mistake, Successful, Exercise

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• In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

  Zachary Lazar

  Writing, Self, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it shouldn't be funny now. It's about having that unity of experience. You have to try and take away your hindsight knowledge of a situation.

  Damian Barr

  Cutting, Unity, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

  Eugene Mirman

  Nice, School, Massachusetts

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• I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.

  Kevin Bleyer

  Art, Mind, Television

  "Don’t Watch" by Kevin Bleyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2005.

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• What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Past, Historical

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, "I would have done that a little different" because hindsight is 20/20.

  Sam Huntington

  Careers, Different, Would Be

  "Brandon Routh and Sam Huntington Exclusive Interview DYLAN DOG". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 27, 2011.

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• We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

  Karan Casey

  Jobs, Loneliness, Difficult Situations

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• The short story that eventually grew into Constellation was the first fiction set in Russia that I'd ever written, and that was right around the time I was giving up on a doomed, never-to-be-seen first novel. While I saw it could be something bigger, in hindsight fortuitous timing was as responsible as anything.

  Anthony Marra

  Giving Up, Russia, Saws

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.

  Ed Helms

  Thinking, Yarn, Long

  "Ed Helms: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. March 14, 2012.

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• Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

  Bernhard Schlink

  Beautiful, Memories, Sadness

  Bernhard Schlink (2011). “The Reader”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

  Jane Pauley

  Nbc, People, Gardening

  "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". The SecondAct Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.

  Karen White

  Decision, Vision, New Life

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• Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.

  Ben Galley

  Beautiful, Memories, Past

  Ben Galley (2014). “The Emaneska Series Bundle”, p.1032, BenGalley.com

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• As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Who Cares, Useless, Tomorrow

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Different, Looks, Done

  "General Norman Schwarzkopf dies, aged 78" by Conal Urquhart, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2012.

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• But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

  Kate Morton

  Actors, Fool, Recourse

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